This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... their success, all manner of dishonesty to provide for the expensiveness of these courses, all manner of barbarity to hide the shame or lighten the in-conveniencies of them: till thus they become abandoned to every crime, by indulging this one. But let. us consider the fatal effects of it on the two sexes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... their success, all manner of dishonesty to provide for the expensiveness of these courses, all manner of barbarity to hide the shame or lighten the in-conveniencies of them: till thus they become abandoned to every crime, by indulging this one. But let. us consider the fatal effects of it on the two sexes separately. Women, that lose their innocence, which seldom fails of being soon discovered, lose their good name intirely along with it; are marked out and given up at once to almost irrecoverable infamy: and even mere suspicion hath in some measure the same bad consequences with certain proof. It is, doubt-less, extremely unjust to work up mere impru-deucies into gross transgressions: and even the greatest transgressors ought to be treated with all possible compassion, when they appear truly penitent. But, unless they appear so, a wide distinction between them and others ought to be made. And they who contribute, whether designedly or thoughtlessly, to place good, bad, and doubtful characters' all on a level, do most preposterously obscure and debase their own virtue, if they have any; keep guilt in countenance, and defraud right conduct of the peculiar esteem which belongs to it: thus injuring at once the cause of religion and morals, and the interests of society. But besides the general disregard, of which vicious women will experience not a little, even in places and times of the most relaxed ways of thinking, they have a sorer evil to expect: of being, sooner or later, for the most part very soon, cast off and abandoned, with contempt and scorn, by their seducers. Or even should they have reparation made them by marriage; this doth not take away the sin at all, and the disgrace but very imperfectly: not to say, that it still leaves them...
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